Strainer attachment.



G. BENDIX.

STRAINER ATTAGHMENTL APPLIUATION HLBD JUNE 1s, 1913.

' ATTORNEYS Patented Feb. 17. 1914.

GEORGE BENBIX, 0F VESTA, IVHNNESOTA.

application filed .lune i3.,

To all 107mm, it may concern Be it known that l', GEORGE Bna'nix, izen of the United States, and a resident of Veeta, in the county of Redwood and State of .lllinnesota7 have made a. new and useful Improvement in Strainer Attach ments, of which the following is a Specitication.

My invention relates to iml'novienientf; in attachments for St-rainers and it consists in the device hereinafter described. and claimed.

An objectof my invention is to vprovide a device whereby a strainer for milk or other fluids may be quickly repaired Without the necessity of dismantling the device.

A further object of my invention is to provide an article of manufacture which may be used with an ordinary milk strainer and Whose use will practically render rthe Strainer as goed as new.

Other objecte and advantages 'will a ppeai1 in the following Specification and the novel features of the invention will be particlr larly pointed out in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which,

lligure l is a perspective View of the attachment, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing' the position of the attachment in the Strainer.

In strainers of the type shown in Fig. 2, consistingr of a funnelehaped body l, to which is attached a cylindrical neck Q designed to enter a milk can, Wire cloth is carried at the junction ofthe parte l and Q. as is represented by the dotted line l in llie'. Q. These Wire cloth screens are constantly being broken by rough usage. The ordinary method of repairing a strainer of this type is to disconnect the cylindrical portion 2 from the funnel portion 1,' take olf the broken wire cloth, and replace it With new, after which the cylindrical portion 2 has to be replaced. This involves time and labor.

Specification of Letters atent.

considerable I 'l`o obviate the neceseity of the eonunon repairing oieration. I provide an annular plate or ring the center opening of which ie: covered by means of Screen or ivire cloth ln the preferred form of the device, the inner edge 5 of the ring' is; bent back upon itself. the outer edge oit' the wire cloth being' secured between 'the bent over portion and the main portion of the ring. Instead of having to dismantle the Strainer by detachw in.;A` the part l from the part 2. the only think;F neceeszuv to do is to place the ring' l within the :n.ainer until it contactsy with. the bottom part of the funnel portion 1. The edge of the ring may noiv be soldered to the body portion of the Strainer.

The ring l With the ivire cloth i would be iuade up in variousI sizes to acconiniodz'ite strainers of greater or lees capacity. The rings are made full width so that they may be trimmed it neee-'-:;-'ar v. llrdinariljg", however. this would non', he refpiircd.

l claim:

l. The combinati 3u With a milk strainer having` conical ivall. of an annular plate arranged to contact with the .vallzs all around its e-ripher v. and a circular Strip of ivire cloth Secured to the inner edge` of Said annular plate for effivering;4 the central opening in the latter.

The combination vvith a milk Strainer having.: conical walls. of an annuler plate arranged to contact. vvith the walls all around its periphery, the inner edge of said annular plate beingr bent back upon itself7 a circular Strip of Wire cloth having;` its; outer ednee bent back between the bent edjges of said annular plate and being clamped between aid edges and arranged to cover the opening in the annular plate.

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